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1.1 Identity

1.2 The self and the other

1.3 Consciousness

1.4 Personhood

1.5 Human nature

1.6 Freedom

2.1 The nature of art

2.2 The artist and the artistic process

2.3 Aesthetic experience and judgement

3.1 Nature of knowledge

3.2 Problems of knowledge

3.3 Application of knowledge

4.1 Normative ethics

4.2 Meta-ethics

4.3 Applied ethics

5.1 Nature and existence of God

5.2 Religious language

5.3 Religious experience and behaviour

6.1 Nature and methodologies of science

6.2 Science and the self

6.3 Science and society

7.1 The state

7.2 Justice

7.3 Liberty and rights

8.1 Social structures and institutions

8.2 Equality and discrimination

8.3 Gender

9.1 Philosophy and technology

9.2 Philosophy and the environment

9.3 The nature, function, and meaning of methodology of philosophy

10.1 Language, Truth and Logic – Alfred Jules Ayer

10.2 The Analects – Confucius

10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes

10.4 Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon

10.5 On the Genealogy of Morality – Friedrich Nietzsche

10.6 Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach – Martha C. Nussbaum

10.7 The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset

10.8 The Republic, Books IV–IX – Plato

10.9 The Ethics of Authenticity – Charles Taylor

10.10 Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

10.11 The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir

10.12 On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

IB Philosophy 10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes Lessons

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10.3.1 Radical Doubt and the Quest for Certainty

10.3.2 Cogito Ergo Sum: The Self as a Thinking Thing

10.3.3 Clear and Distinct Perceptions

10.3.4 Proofs for the Existence of God

10.3.5 Mind–Body Dualism

10.3.6 Knowledge of the External World

10.3.7 Connections to the Core Theme and Optional Themes

IB Philosophy 10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes Lessons

1. Being human

2. Aesthetics

3. Epistemology

4. Ethics

5. Philosophy of religion

6. Philosophy of science

7. Political philosophy

8. Social philosophy

9. HL extension: Philosophy and contemporary issues

10. Prescribed philosophical texts

IB Philosophy 10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes Lessons

1. Being human

2. Aesthetics

3. Epistemology

4. Ethics

5. Philosophy of religion

6. Philosophy of science

7. Political philosophy

8. Social philosophy

9. HL extension: Philosophy and contemporary issues

10. Prescribed philosophical texts

Lessons for 10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes - IB

IB Philosophy 10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes Lessons